- Patients beyond Milan criteria are selected on a case by case basis until 2005. From 2005 , patients beyond Milan criteria are subjected to down staging protocol and then reassessed (pre transplantation local ablative therapy either with RFA or TACE according to the size and the site of the lesion and we wait for 12 weeks after ablation ,only those with well ablated lesions, decreased AFP and no denovo lesions were transplanted).